Shallowford Road
One day, my lovely wife asked me why I keep a framed copy of this photograph around the house. I told her that it is an important reminder to me that no matter how bad I think things get, they could always get, and have been, worse. At some point in my childhood (one of my goals will be to piece some dates together, but this was probably around 1990), my father, sister, and I lived in this house. Aside from the overgrown landscape, it looks in this photograph very much the same as it did then. It was probably the worst house we lived in during my childhood. I know my dad wasn't very proud of it, but it was all we could find at the time. We had just moved from Leesville, LA to be closer to our mother and some of my dad's old biker buddies from our time in California (another chapter). Interestingly, what got me thinking about this old house on Shallowford Road in Moss Point, MS, was the Nintendo Classic craze that we just experienced this past Christmas...